YouTube
History
- YouTube began when three PayPal employees started to create a video-sharing website on which users could share their videos
- Thee Internet domain name "youtube.com" was activated on February 14, 2005
- During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing sites on the web
- On October 9, 2006, it was announced that the company would be purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock
- Introduced to other countries in 2007
What is it?
- YouTube is a free video sharing website
- You can edit, share, and watch videos
- Videos can sometimes be a way of profit to people
Interesting Facts
- 3rd most visited site according to Alexa
- Most popular video is "Lady Gaga Bad Romance"
- Most videos viewed by 12-17 year olds
- 10% of internet traffic
- 829,440 videos uploaded everyday
- It would take 1700 years to watch all youtube videos